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Taíno : pre-Columbian art and culture from the Caribbean / edited by Fatima Bercht [and others] ; with contributions by Ricardo E. Alegría [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; El Museo del Barrio : Monacelli Press, 1997Description: 189 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1885254822
  • 9781885254825
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.03979
LOC classification:
  • F1619.2.T3 T37 1997
Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- The Caribbean before European Conquest: A Chronology -- An Introduction to Taino Culture and History -- The Daily Life of the Taino People -- The Taino Social and Political Order -- To Be Seated with "Great Courtesy and Veneration": Contextual Aspects of the Taino Duho -- The Creation Myths of the Taino -- Taino Stone Collars, Elbow Stones, and Three-Pointers -- Zemi Three-Pointer Stones -- Ancestor Worship and Cosmology among the Taino -- The Bat and the Owl: Nocturnal Images of Death -- Just Wasting Away: Taino Shamanism and Concepts of Fertility -- Epilogue: The Beaded Zemi in the Pigorini Museum -- Appendices -- Selected Bibliography.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 704.03979 TAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A156310B

Published to accompany an exhibition of the same title organized by El Museo del Barrio, New York, Sept. 25, 1997-Mar. 29, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189).

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- The Caribbean before European Conquest: A Chronology -- An Introduction to Taino Culture and History -- The Daily Life of the Taino People -- The Taino Social and Political Order -- To Be Seated with "Great Courtesy and Veneration": Contextual Aspects of the Taino Duho -- The Creation Myths of the Taino -- Taino Stone Collars, Elbow Stones, and Three-Pointers -- Zemi Three-Pointer Stones -- Ancestor Worship and Cosmology among the Taino -- The Bat and the Owl: Nocturnal Images of Death -- Just Wasting Away: Taino Shamanism and Concepts of Fertility -- Epilogue: The Beaded Zemi in the Pigorini Museum -- Appendices -- Selected Bibliography.

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